Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing Hub

细胞农业制造中心

• 批准号: EP/X038114/1
• 负责人: Marianne Ellis
• 金额: $ 1567.53万
• 依托单位: University of Bath
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX038114%2F1
• 关键词: Cellular; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Hub

Imagine being able to manufacture food anywhere in the world, or even in space, so everyone, everywhere, has enough nutritious food to eat! This dream can be achieved through Cellular Agriculture (Cell Ag). Cell Ag enables the production of food products that would normally come from an animal, such as meat and milk from cows, or from monocultures of crops such as oil palm trees, without having to keep increasing animal or plant numbers to feed our growing global population. Cell Ag, uses biological cell-level processes to create food via the 'building blocks of life' - the proteins, fats and carbohydrates. By delivering these building blocks, Cell Ag will transform food production by complementing traditional food production, so not only can we feed the world, but we can manufacture the food so that sustainability and social responsibility is embedded from the outset. Why would we wish to use Cell Ag rather than animals? Let's take the example of the building block, protein, from traditional meat. Life Cycle Assessments have shown that when comparing traditional meat manufacturing against the expected benefits of using Cell Ag, there is a predicted reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and land use, of up to 95%. The analysis also estimates that we could achieve up to 50% reduction in the use of water, compared to cattle farming. And we could reduce need for intensive farming so improving animal welfare too. So, with these benefits and the urgent need to achieve Net Zero Manufacturing and protect the planets resources.Why do we not have Cell Ag manufacturing in our homes or across all our food manufacturing sectors? There are several reasons - and our research will remove these blockers to Cell Ag manufacturing. Current status of Cell Ag Manufacturing research and outputs in the UK:In the UK (and across the World), there are pockets of excellent research being done, but little that focuses on delivering useable and scalable manufacturing machinery, processes, and systems in a coherent manner. The research tends to be in silos and focussed on aspects of the Manufacturing Value Chain. There are fundamental areas of research that need to be delivered to enable us to realise the Cell Ag potential, as well as transforming current research outputs to be useable. Through this Hub we will bring together the pockets of excellence in the UK, and deliver a coherent and targeted research programme that will ensure the UK Cell Ag research ecosystem is world-leading and has manufacturing impact. Rather than target a particular sector/type of food/product - the Hub will deliver manufacturing research which will enable production of food building blocks at local, regional and international levels. Our vision is to be the world leader in delivering materials, manufacturing processes and skills to escalate the world's adoption of sustainable Cell Ag food production. We will achieve this through becoming the net exporter of the building blocks of life.

想象一下，能够在世界上任何地方，甚至在太空中制造食物，这样每个地方的每个人都有足够的营养食物吃！这个梦想可以通过细胞农业（Cell Ag）来实现。Cell Ag能够生产通常来自动物的食品，如牛的肉和奶，或来自油棕树等单一作物，而无需不断增加动物或植物数量来养活不断增长的全球人口。Ag细胞利用生物细胞水平的过程，通过“生命的基石”——蛋白质、脂肪和碳水化合物——来制造食物。通过提供这些基本要素，Cell Ag将通过补充传统粮食生产来改变粮食生产，因此我们不仅可以养活世界，而且可以生产粮食，从而从一开始就嵌入可持续性和社会责任。为什么我们希望使用Ag细胞而不是动物？让我们以传统肉类中的蛋白质为例。生命周期评估表明，当比较传统肉类生产与使用Cell Ag的预期效益时，预计温室气体排放和土地使用将减少高达95%。分析还估计，与养牛相比，我们可以减少50%的用水量。我们还可以减少对集约化农业的需求，从而改善动物福利。因此，有了这些好处，我们迫切需要实现净零制造，保护地球资源。为什么我们没有在我们的家庭或所有的食品制造部门生产细胞抗原？有几个原因-我们的研究将消除这些阻碍细胞Ag生产。Cell Ag制造研究和产出在英国的现状：在英国（以及世界各地），有一些优秀的研究正在进行，但很少关注于以连贯的方式提供可用和可扩展的制造机械、流程和系统。研究往往是孤立的，集中在制造价值链的各个方面。有一些基础领域的研究需要交付，使我们能够实现Cell Ag的潜力，以及将当前的研究成果转化为可用的。通过这个中心，我们将汇集英国的优秀人才，并提供一个连贯的、有针对性的研究计划，以确保英国细胞农业研究生态系统处于世界领先地位，并具有制造业影响力。该中心将提供制造研究，而不是针对特定部门/类型的食品/产品，这将使在地方、区域和国际层面上生产食品基础材料成为可能。我们的愿景是成为提供材料、制造工艺和技能的世界领导者，以提升世界对可持续细胞农业食品生产的采用。我们将通过成为生活基本要素的净出口国来实现这一目标。